CVE-2017-17512
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-11 06:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:51
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.63% (0.67871)
Summary
sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelogRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/881767Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00012.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3584-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4071Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelogRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/881767Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00012.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3584-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4071Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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